Death Row Movies

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

A psychologist interviews a death row inmate to determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of...

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses,...

In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life...

Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and...

The film is based on true events, about the imminent execution of the death row inmates Zheng Ligun in the escort on the way to a sudden earthquake,...

The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos....

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...

Valerie's prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam, an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage...

Geraldo Rivera investigates allegations of a widespread Satanic underground in the United States.

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

John Gacy was a notorious serial killer who was on death row for 14 years. After lethal injection was administered, it took him far too long to...